CAPE ELIZABETH — Conner Mantz, an Olympic marathoner from Utah, had a personal score to settle Saturday at the TD Beach to Beacon 10K.

Izzy Batt Doyle, a two-time Olympian from Australia, had a personal hurdle she needed to clear.

Both Mantz and Batt Doyle got the job done in splendid fashion on a clear morning with temperatures in the low 60s that made it an ideal day for fast times at Maine’s largest road race, founded by 1984 Olympic marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson in 1998.

Mantz, 28, became just the second American to win the race, and he did it in record-breaking fashion, finishing in 27 minutes, 26 seconds. Mantz joined 2016 men’s winner Ben True of North Yarmouth as the only American winners.

“Oh, wow, I did not know that,” Mantz said. “I knew Ben True had won it. I didn’t know that few Americans had won it.”

Mantz broke the course record that had stood since 2003, when Gilbert Okari of Kenya earned the first of his three straight B2B titles in 27:27.5.

“That’s what it takes to try to win one of these things,” dead-panned Mantz, who finished eighth in the Olympic marathon in 2024.

Mantz earned a total of $17,500 — $10,000 for the overall win, $5,000 as the top American, and an extra $2,500 for breaking the course record. Three and a half hours after he started his race, he was spotted doing a brisk cool-down run on Shore Road, still looking fit and happy about a win made “absolutely” sweeter because of what had happened two years ago.

In the 2023 Beach to Beacon, Mantz was dueling for the lead in the final stages of the race after entering Fort Williams Park, heading toward the iconic finish line near Portland Head Light. Mantz said eventual winner Addisu Yihune of Ethiopia cut him off once, causing him to chop his stride, and then later pushed him into a crowd retaining barrier. Yihune, who denied pushing Mantz, won by two seconds.

“Two years ago, yeah, maybe I should have won it. I don’t think two years ago we got to find out who was the fastest athlete,” Mantz said. “That’s a little disappointing.”

This time, Yihune was a non-factor, dropping out sometime after going through 5K in 11th place. Mantz, meanwhile, got in-race cooperation from second-place finisher Patrick Kiprop of Fayetteville, Arkansas. After an initial lead pack of about eight runners had been whittled to three, Mantz and Kiprop exchanged a quick word at about the 4.5-mile mark of the 6.2-mile race. It was time to give the already fast pace a further boost and break away from fading 2024 winner Tadese Worku of Ethiopia.

“I was like, if we break the Ethiopian now, as long as we keep a good effort, it’s top two for both of us,” Mantz said. “So I turned to (Kiprop) and said, let’s do this. Let’s break away.”

Kiprop, a tall, leggy 25-year-old, finished in 27:36, which would have been the fourth-fastest winning time in the race’s history. A graduate student at the University of Arkansas, Kiprop has claimed major road race victories this summer at the Bloomsday 12K and Peachtree 10K.

“Around Mile 6 – (Mantz) is good at downhill – and when we got to downhill he started opening up and he let me go,” Kiprop said. “The pace was quick. I knew we’d run something in the (27-minute range) and we could break the course record today. The weather was good.”

Eight men finished under 28 minutes, with Worku (27:43) and Puma Elite teammates Patrick Dever of Great Britain (27:44) and Peter Lynch of Ireland (27:55) rounding out the top five.

The women’s race followed a similar script. Batt Doyle, 29, went to the front right away, along with Americans Susanna Sullivan and Fiona O’Keeffe, with 2024 champion Edna Kiplagat among a lead group of nine women that stuck together through the first two miles. Ruth White of Orono started with the elite race. She was not a factor with the professional women but did finish first in the Maine women’s division, as she did in 2023.

By Mile 3, Batt Doyle, O’Keefe and 20-year-old Asmarech Anley of Kenya, the junior (U20) world-record holder for 10K on the roads, had opened up a gap that continued to be extended.

The win was still up for grabs when they entered the park, and that’s when Batt Doyle gave herself a pep talk. The fourth-year pro is a two-time Olympian in the 5,000 meters (2021 and 2024) and has had a breakout year in 2025, setting Australian road records for the 10K and half marathon. But wins have been elusive.

“To be honest, my downfall is winning. I’m really good at running fast, but I’m not as good at actually winning,” Batt Doyle said. “I’ve run so many Australian nationals and I’ve never won. I tend to lead races and then not actually get the job done.”

As she tired, Batt Doyle caught herself thinking, “Oh, second would be good. Top three would be fine.” Then, “I told myself how much better it would be to win, to walk away with $10,000 and the glory of breaking the tape.”

Batt Doyle put on one last surge and won in 31:25, with Anley finishing second in 31:31 and 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials marathon champ O’Keeffe third in 31:36. Molly Born of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ran a strong second half of the race to finish fourth (31:55), and sixth-grade math teacher and pro runner Susanna Sullivan placed fifth (32:15).

Sullivan, who lives in Reston, Virginia, and her husband are also part-time Mainers. They bought a home in Somesville, a town on Mount Desert Island, in August of 2024, shortly after Sullivan placed third at Beach to Beacon, which followed their July wedding in Maine.

Sullivan was part of the lead group at the start of the race, spending most of the first mile shoulder-to-shoulder with Batt Doyle.

“It was clear from the beginning she felt good,” Sullivan said. “She was aggressive from the start. I appreciated that.”

In the Maine men’s division, Luke Marsanskis of Cumberland, a recent graduate of the University of Maine, backed up his 2024 title with a victory in 29:27.

The wheelchair division featured two familiar winners. Hannah Babalola of Nigeria won the women’s division for the second year in a row in 30:18. Hermin Garic of Utica, New York, won the men’s race in 24:00. Garic also won in 2022 and 2023, so he knew the course but admitted that on one downhill curve he was going too fast. He had to use the inside of his forearms as brakes on his rear wheels, leaving his left arm with a gruesome bruise that resembled a floor burn.

“At Mile 2-ish, I got a little bit of road rash,” Garic said. “I did not wipe out. I saved it. I stayed in the chair. I took the downhill a little too fast and I had a little bit of wind pushing me there. I broke with my elbows and basically one wheel was off the course, went into some bushes and stuff. I saved it. I didn’t wipe out.”